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Jim's Dart's DiaryArchives from January - March 2012Archives from August- December 2011Archives from April-July 2011W.C.D.D.L. League & Past Team ChampionsW.C.D.D.L. Fixtures 2011-12Gabby Cabby Report From Inside the CabExhibition Nights from through out the CountyMug Shots On Loan from Interpol!West Lothian Maximum HittersWest Lothian Top GamesWest Lothian Top Check OutsWest Lothian's past champions in black & white!West Lothian County Games News + ReportsWest Lothian Grand Prix League Table 2011West Lothian Grand Prix ReportsWest Lothian 301 Summer League SinglesW.C.D.D.L. Singles ChampionsW.C.D.D.L. Top Doubles MatchesBathgate Monday Night LeagueBathgate Friday Night LeagueDarts Stories and Gossip!Jim's Mitchell History Boring stuff
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BENTSWOOD OPEN Saturday 25th February £250 guaranteed prize fund £5 entry 12.30 register toe the ocky 1pm You have to be in it to win it!
R.I.P. Margaret Armstrong One of the county’s most stalwart and loyal lady players has passed away. Margaret Armstrong a women who represented the county in so many great matches and who played with her heart on her sleeve. Has been called to a better place. Those left behind will miss her with great sadness. Margaret was a larger than life character and the support that she gave at the inter counties was there for all of us to hear. When you pulled on your county of West Lothian shirt you new Margaret Armstrong was there 100% behind you. That shout from the back of the hall at inter county matches off. COME ON WEST LOTHIAN. Will remain in the memories with those of us she has left behind. God Bless.
W.C.D.D.L. (Monday 6th Feb) Harrysmuir Warriors versus the Murray Bar Strollers Warriors go down fighting only losing out by the tightest of score lines 4 games to 5. Some excellent checking out in this match with Harrysmuir darter Brian Wallace finishing two games with 85+81 check outs. But without a doubt top shot of the evening was Paul Cairney with a superb 140 game shot. Now I bet that had the home team doing a victory lap round the bowling green! Murray Bar Y.T. Hosted the Paraffin Lamp Brigands This was a close encounter in the scoring but the experience of the Brigands told in the checking out stages of the match. Rab Inglis had a rock solid 75 game shot. Big Daddy Frank Begley finishing in style on the bulls-eye for a 81 take out. Gordon The Bruce finish of 110 but it was Mitchell with a 140 check out who had the highest finish in this match up. Fast games came from Brian Tosh McIntyre with a cracking 15 darter followed by Bruce and Mitchell both with 18 dart games. Rab Inglis and Mitchell took out a nice 15 dart pairs game. But the roof came of the bar when local star David Black secured the loudest cheer of the night when he calmly knocked in a cracking maximum 180. Also hitting the red lipstick was Gordon THE Bruce with a fine 180 of his own, But not such a large cheer! Final score in this game was an 8 games to 1 win for the Brigands. Volunteer Highway Men versus the Almondvale Pirates Highway Men taking this match up by 8 games to 1 Hopefully some stats will arrive shortly and they will be published Big Derek Carmicheal 19darter for the Pirates, John Betfred Rooney 20 & 19 darts for the Highway Men. Scott Begley & Ian Carmichael 18 darter in the doubles and Chris Forsyth & Davie Nisbet 20 & 16 darts in their pairs match up. BO'NESS OPEN REPORT (Sat 4th Feb) Travelling darters from all over the county converged on the Crown Inn Bo'ness for their open singles tournament. Players making headlines from the West Calder Monday night league were. Kyle Gilmour who fought his way through to the semi finals and earned himself a nice £100 for his efforts. Making the last 16 were Chris Forsyth, Colin Robertson and Grant Lyle. Players who took an early bath were Davie Nisbet, Shaun Robertson and Dean Hamilton. Kyle who had played well all day knocked in 3x15 darters, 3x18 darters, and 1x19 dart games, He also finished strongly with 82 & 83 game shots. and a nice maximum 180 as well. Grant Lyle had an 18 dart game plus two nice check outs of 76 & 101 to his credit. Chris Forsyth on target with a maximum 180. And Colin Robertson a maximum 180 plus a 96 game shot, Colin also finished games in 17-18-19 darts.The players making the last eight were. Champion Duncan Hastings £350.00 runner up Chris Loudon £180.00. Semi Finalists Craig Baxter and Kyle Gilmour £100.00 each. Q/ finalists receiving £10.00 were Gordon Hastings, Alex Lister, James McKenna, and Brian Donaldson. MAXIMUM HITTERS (Friday 4th Feb) This week at the British Legion Bathgate we had two players knocking in maximum 180's Stevie Duncan of Deans Village and Arron Edwards of Craigshill. On the down side there was a very expensive game of darts played as well! Jim Mitchell who throws 23.4 gram tungsten Rhenium darts which retail at +£90 a set had one of the darts points break off right at the bottom of the dart. In attendance was none other than our very own Mr Fix it Bob Hall who runs his own darts business and even he had to admit that this was one dart which would not be thrown in competition again. And with no fewer than four singles titles won in the last three months with theses arrows the question will be what Mitchell do next. As we all know when you get a set of arrows that feel just right it helps your confidence grow. Oh well back to plan number 65? NEWS FLASH NEWS FLASH NEWS FLASH West Lothian Courier now carries a darts page. The sports editor has made room for darts news from around the county. So if you want to read about darts or if you know about a darts competition or a player playing well drop me a line and a report will be sent in. Each week hopefully there will be enough darting news to get the sport of darts up to a half page spread. Looks good so far the question is can we keep it going (hope so) fingers crossed. BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND INSIDE THE CAB REVIEW Is now available on the Gabby Cabby page Topical as ever ANYONE HELP
On Sunday at the inter counties Scottish Internationalist Ewan Hyslops dart case got lost down in Kelso. He has important information about the Dutch open in it. Should someone have picked it up by mistake or found it in the morning and wondered who it belongs to. Can you get in touch please!!! e-mail address at bottom of page. Many thanks Jim EXHIBITION NIGHT SOLD OUT W.C.D.D.L. Proudly present Twice B.D.O. Champion of the world 2000 & 2009 The Count Mr Ted Hankey Ted
Hankey - two-time World Champion, darts most compelling character and the only player in the game to throw from the dark side of the oche. Known as 'The Count', this darting vampire
is repulsed by garlic, crucifixes ...... and dart fans who don't pay him due respect. He is immune to conventional means of attack, so unless you have a wooden stake at your disposal, your boos and shrieks of disenchantment are wasted! Also partnering up with the man from the dark side
we welcome back a man who has entertained us quite royaly twice before the one and only and the reighning English Open champion for 2011 Mr Gary Robson Known as Robbo On one of our leagues first moves into the exhibition circuit Gary came up by car from Newcastle in extreme weather conditions. To put people in the picture roads were closed all across west lothian some parts of the county were quite simply impassable and roads were closed off to the rest of the world on that night. But Robbo the entertainer that he is drove up from the south to entertain us with a fantastic exhibition of arrow throwing on the night. Along with Scottish international and twice Scottish master champion Alec Lister. So Monday the 20th February day after the Scottish open these two gentlemen of the ockey will be in exhibition at the East Calder Doo Club. Tickets will go on sale later in the year and I do believe they will go like hot cakes as this season the league will be advertising in the West Lothian Courier so team captains please let your players know! When released the tickets will be on a first come first sold basis!!!
LEAGUE REPORTS
As each month passes the reports which were on the front page of this web site will be removed and added to their respective pages which can be found in the left hand column please click on the relevant page and the news you are looking for hopefully will be at your finger tips Jim
ALWAYS REMEMBER THE SITE QUOTE A day without laughter is a day wasted! PICTURES OF OLDEN DAY'S!
CHECK OUT THE DART STORIES AND GOSSIP PAGE Some new well old paper reviews in there thanks to Stuart Tait , Gordon Bruce and Jimmy MacMillan for the memories!
 WEBSITE COMMENTS Please keep the comments coming always nice to know that people take the time to write in the guest book. One writer has asked what or how much Jim Mitchell gets paid! If only this web site is paid for by Jim Mitchell all the expense for running the site is met out of the pocket of yours truly. Time spent each week updating is roughly three to four hours sometimes more depending what is happening around the county. Of course reports are sent in by other dart players and I do try to mention as many players as possible. But if the information doesn't get to me there is not a lot that can be done about it. Now should the writer in the guest book wish to help either financially or by giving of their time in sending in reports that would be very helpful indeed. All help in keeping this web site updated is gratefully received. Look forward to hearing from you sooner rather than later. Jim Mitchell web master & owner of this site.
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